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Sandie Shaw~1965 Me

She
made her debut on stage in 1964. Sandy opened singer Adam Faith, after
which it came under the tutelage of Yves Taylor's manager. Her first
single "As Long As You're Happy" has not had much success, but performed
after this version of the famous composition Bakaracha Burt and Hal
Davidson "There's Always Something There To Remind Me" won the first
prize of the British charts.
Singer, which is due to high growth, was
like a fashion model in the next three years has recorded a series of
popular hits that are mostly written her producer Chris Andrews ( "Girl
Do not Come", I'll Stop At Nothing ",« Long Live Love "(her second
number 1 in the UK)," Message Understood "," Tomorrow "and" Nothing
Comes Easy ", all included in the top 20. Constantly appeared in popular
TV programs such as top of The Pops, Ready Steady Go !, Thank your
Lucky Stars. also recorded a great number of their hits in Italian,
French, German and Spanish to ensure its popularity on the continent. it
was popular in South Africa, advocated the "iron curtain", and even
gave concerts in pre-revolutionary Iran.
Almost all of the singles
were created Taylor, Andrews and Sandy Shaw itself (though she has never
designated to co-authors), as well as through Pye Records arranger Ken
Woodman. Although the singles were the basis of its financial success
and popularity in this time it has released 5 studio albums - "Sandie",
"Me", "Love Me, Please Love Me", "The Sandie Shaw Supplement" and
"Reviewing The Situation".
By 1967, sales began to fall, and
management show against her will sent it to represent Britain at the
Eurovision Song Contest. There she won the first place with the song
«Puppet on a String», which then also became the leader of the British
hit parade. The separation of the second prize-winner, Sandy, was 53%, a
record in the history of the competition. Her speech, in which Shaw
appeared barefoot, caused a small scandal, because the concert program
was held in Vienna's Imperial Palace. After that, the performance was
without shoes brand style singer.
In March 1968 secretly married
fashion designer Jeff Banks. Fashion becomes another of her career, when
in the same year, she founded the brand name fashion apparel and shoes
"Sandie Shaw". At the same time it leads to the TV own show "The Sandie
Shaw Supplement".
After the success of the single "Tonight In Tokyo",
sponsored by the authors of the winning song at Eurovision Bill Martin
and Phil Coulter, Shaw returns to cooperate with Andrews. In 1969, she
recorded their own version of the French hit "Monsieur Dupont", which
was the last of her popular work (6 th place in the UK). In the late
1969 release of the single "Heaven Knows I'm Missing Him Now", which 15
years later would be the inspiration for a hit by The Smiths. At the
same time, the first time Sandy tries itself to produce their work. The
result, "Revieving The Situation", turned out quite different from the
mix of pop songs and covers of Andrews on the previous albums. The album
consisted entirely of covers of songs of rock musicians (Bob Dylan,
"Rolling Stones", "Beatles", Donovan et al.). She received the first
(!!) performer who made a cover of "Led Zeppelin".
Starting 70th
brought the rupture of relations with her husband. It turned out a few
singles, the last in 1972 "Father And Son" (Cat Stevens). Sandy was gone
from the music scene, and moved on to composing activities (including
co-authoring feature rock musicals), performances at the theater (she
played Ophelia in "Saint Joan" "Hamlet" and Joan of Arc in), as well as
wrote and illustrated books for children. In 1977 he released two
singles on CBS, and from next year the beginning of their relationship
with the "Company of Sokka Gakkai" (Japanese neobuddistskaya
organization).
The second marriage took place in 1982 with Nick
Powell, who was the co-founder of the Virgin Group and President of the
European Film Academy. He introduced her to the group "B.E.F." (ex-
"Human League") and together they recorded the song for their album
"Music Of Quality And Distinction". Composition "Anyone Who Had A Heart"
(Bacharach / David) howled released as a single, was the release of the
album in the plans of Virgin, but the recording had to be postponed due
to the birth of her daughter Amy. Support Sandy also had Chrissie Hynde
of "Pretenders", which invited her to concerts of the group, where they
performed the duet "Girl Do not Come" (a hit show in 1964). Also in
1982, the group The Smiths frontman Morrissey recorded the song "Heaven
Knows I'm Miserable Now", which was inspired by a composition Sandy
sixties "Heaven Knows I'm Missing You Now".

In 1983 she released
the album "Choose Life" (first studio since 1969) and a few singles, but
completely abandoned their promotion. Since August 1983, Sandy received
several letters from Morrissey (big fan of it) with offers of
cooperation. And Sandy's husband was a friend of Geoff Travis, the owner
of Rough Trade Records, on which were written "Smiths", in general, the
meeting eventually took place. The next single, "Hand In Glove" in
1984, which she recorded with The Smiths, brought her some success (27
in the UK), planned to record an album, but it had to be postponed
because of the birth of his son Jack. In 1986, at the 68th British chart
hit song "Are You Ready To Be Heartbroke?", Which was processing the
songs Lloyd Cole, as well as for the first time after 20 years, Sandy
held a tour of universities.
The last studio album, "Hello Angel" was released in 1988 on Rough Trade, and were held two more tours for universities.
In
the 90s came countless collections (especially in Europe), and reissued
on CD all seven studio albums. In 1994 he released a CD with the newly
re-recorded versions of their songs 60s "Nothing Less Tha Brilliant".
In
1991 he released his autobiography. After studying at Oxford and the
University of London in 1994 he became a practicing psychoanalyst. With
her third husband Tony Bedford (1996) in 1997 he opened a private clinic
"The Art Clinic", (for the treatment of mental disorders from the media
idustrii including).
By 2002, the show was able to finally get the
rights to the entire catalog of his records, and in 2003 she sold him a
license to the EMI Corporation, which in 2003 and 2004 released a
compilation of her French, Italian, Spanish and German records. There
have also been released remastered "Reviewing The Situation" and "Hello
Angel" (with bonus), and the box-SET 4-CD "Nothing Comes Easy" (A and B
sides of all its British singles plus rare and unreleased recordings).